I Saved My Belly Dancer (2016)

While the film didn’t hit me as emotionally as I wanted it to, I still enjoyed it. I simply wish there was a little more, particularly with the world building.

"Marriage Story" is a narrow-minded and heavy-handed attempt to examine the complexity of human relationships.

This fantasy movie released on Disney+ has strong topics and themes related to magic.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

This 2024 musical film is based on the Broadway show and the 2004 film of the same name with major differences.

As a frequent “the book was better” extoller, this movie was well worth the watch.